Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 97
But a certain yeoman that was standing by heard the Barons and Roland talking together, and told the matter to the King.
Who acts: certain yeoman, Barons · What happens: stand by, hear, talk, tell · To what, where: Barons, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain yeoman, Barons), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 yeoman | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 yeoman | amod |
| 4 | yeoman | yeoman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 standing | aux |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 yeoman | acl:relcl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 standing | obl |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Barons | det |
| 11 | Barons | Baron | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Roland | cc |
| 13 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Barons | conj |
| 14 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 Barons | acl |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 talking | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 King | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand by | past · progressive | a certain yeoman | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | a certain yeoman | the Barons and Roland | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer baron=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | the Barons and Roland not said here | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | a certain yeoman not said here | the matter | to the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to king=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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